The heart is a muscular organ responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels. The average human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times during a lifetime of 66 years. In the human body, the heart is usually situated in the middle of the thorax with the largest part of the heart slightly offset to the left.
The heart (♥) has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past also intellectual core of a human being. Hearts are extremely prevalent symbols representing love. The Roman physician Galen located the seat of the passions in the liver, the seat of reason in the brain, and considered the heart to be the seat of the emotions.
An emotion is a "complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral, and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter of event. It arises without conscious effort and is either positive or negative in its valence. Emotion is very complex, and the term has no single, universally accepted definition.
Emotions are measurable physical responses to salient stimuli: the increased heartbeat and perspiration that accompany fear, the freezing response of a rat in the presence of a cat, or the extra muscle tension that accompanies anger. Feelings, on the other hand, are the subjective experiences that sometimes accompany these processes: the sensations of happiness, envy, sadness, and so on.Feeling in psychology is usually reserved for the conscious subjective experience of emotion. As such, it is inherently beyond the reach of scientific method. (just like god???)
The word love has many different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (patriotism, pair bonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state.
Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen.These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months.
Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms.
Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side-effects such as an increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.
Since the lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding which promotes relationships that last for many years, and even decades.
This all might have gotten a bit long but here's the point of it all.
Nowadays we know that the hart is a muscle. An important one as it's beats keep us alive. A muscle can not control emotions or feelings. It might pass them on. And in harts case that's how it is.
Don't you find it funny... that most of your emotions are made clear to you by your body and not your mind. Does that mean something. Is it perhaps a clue.
The way I understand things this is how it goes:
Your brain releases Chemicals. And those chemicals control your body witch from there on gives you a feeling or an emotion. And that is deciphered in your brain to make it understandable for you.
No mater how much I researched I couldn't understand what is love, what are emotions and feelings. Do they even exist or are they just a trick of mind. A war between what you want it to be and what it is.
(I have always though so and I must say that I would like to think so in the future. They say that as time passes I will be convinced otherwise.) But who would we be without feelings and emotions? Not human that's for sure.
Charis.
Trying to reason herself out of this situation.
Just as there are many types of lovers, there are many kinds of love.
Each time you love is the first time you love.
(so could it be that you never love?)
My thanks To Wikipedia.org